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    With a couple of small changes, Send the Marines can be updated for 2025 standards.

    What with President TACO practicing escalato on the Los Angeles
    And then the ICE-est Crisis on top of that
    It has been a nervous year
    And people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis

    Fortunately, in times of crisis like this
    America always has its number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on
    Here’s a song about it

    When someone makes a move
    Of which we don’t approve
    Who is it that always intervenes?
    U.N. and O.A.S
    They have their place, I guess
    But first - send the Marines

    We’ll send them all we’ve got
    John Wayne and Randolph Scott
    Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
    To the shores of Tripoli
    But not to Mississippoli
    What do we do? We send the Marines!

    For might makes right
    And till they’ve seen the light
    They’ve got to be protected
    All their rights respected
    So somebody we dislike can stay elected

    Members of the corps
    All hate the thought of war
    They’d rather kill them off by peaceful means
    Stop calling it aggression

    Ooh, we hate that expression!
    We only want the world to know
    That we support the status quo
    They love us everywhere we go
    So when in doubt
    Send the Marines!